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Recueil de testes de caractère et de charges / dessinées par Leonard de Vinci ... et gravées par M. le C. de C. [i.e. le comte de Caylus].

Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre-Jean Mariette, Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus · 1730 · Paris : Mariette, 1730. · 46 pictures

A print suite of sixty grotesque and character heads after Leonardo da Vinci drawings, etched by the Comte de Caylus and published by Pierre-Jean Mariette in Paris in 1730 for collectors and artists studying physiognomy. Each head is a profile or three-quarter bust set in a double-ruled roundel, drawn in fine hatched line on blank ground, giving designers ready-made medallion portraits, caricature profiles, and numbered plate layouts.

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain)